<p>Thanks again, dcircle, for your help. The thing is that much of my grad school decision will be based on the quality of the affiliated campus museum. I am hoping that for an MA thesis I would be able to organize all or part of a museum exhibition, which is what I really love to do. Further, the program requires one semester of hands-on work at a museum, and almost all of at least the anthro department's museum studies students go to the Haffenreffer (though I'm leaning more and more toward the American Civilization department's version), and one of the Brown profs whose work I like most works mainly at the museum. On a practical note, the Haffenreffer website actively solicits museum volunteers, while the American Civ home page explains that because its faculty do not have enough time to meet with all program applicants, they hold a firm policy of meeting with none. (I also was drawn to this university by a very interesting exhibit the Haffenreffer put on a few years ago, so I am eager to get a better understanding of how this place runs even if I don't end up attending the university program)</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your thoughts again. Are you in this or an adjacent field of study?</p>